How does cpanel hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)
Are you growing disorientated? We absolutely are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...